Champions of the truth

Champions of the Truth makes available G.A. Rawlyk's Bell Lectures in Maritime Studies, given at Mount Allison University in 1987 and 1988 in honour of Winthrop Pickard Bell. Rawlyk links his earlier work on Henry Alline to his new research on Canadian Baptists in particular the Maritime Baptists...

Memories, myths, and dreams of an ojibwe leader

In the 1930s, Chief William Berens shared with anthropologist A. Irving Hallowell a remarkable history of his life, as well as many personal and dream experiences that held special significance for him. Most of this material has never been published.

Chora 2

In this second volume in the Chora series, contributing authors take an interdisciplinary approach to architecture and other cultural concerns, challenging readers to consider alternatives to conventional aesthetic and technological reductions.

Consociational democracy

A sense of their duty

What did it mean to be middle class in late nineteenth-century Ontario? How did the members of the middle class define themselves? Though simple, these questions have escaped the attention of social historians in recent writing about Canada. The Victorian middle class, referred to as the backbone...

Whose mission, whose orders?

Revealing the secret struggles between British politicians and generals to control the army in Northern Ireland.

The black atlantic reconsidered

A survey of English and French black Canadian writing and its transnational connections from the eighteenth century to the present.

Gender, religion, and modern hindi drama

An exploration of the issues of religion and gender in Hindi drama from the 1880s to the 1960s.

Common ground

What happens when two prolific religious scholars sit down and, together, read sacred texts of their different religions?

Historical essays on british columbia

The distinctive character of B.C., which is found not only in its spectacular environment, but also in its community, its politics and its past, is admirably captured in this collection of 16 essays.

St. denys garneau & anne hebert

A disciplined intelligence

This highly original contribution to Canadian intellectual history examines the course of critical inquiry and its relationship to the assertion of moral authority in English-Canadian thought during the Victorian era.

Nourrir la machine humaine

A study of foodways and food advice in a modernizing Quebec.

John stuart mill, socialist

Best known as the author of On Liberty, John Stuart Mill remains a canonical figure in liberalism today. Yet according to his autobiography, by the mid-1840s he placed himself "under the general designation of Socialist." Taking this self-description seriously, John Stuart Mill, Socialist reinter...

A course in baluchi

Reclaiming william morris

Casting new light on the relations between nationalism, rhetoric, and revolution, Michelle Weinroth shows how the English legacy of William Morris was appropriated in the interests of political forces seeking hegemonic power. She argues that Conservative claimants disseminated Morris's aesthetic ...

The confederation debates in the province of canada, 1865

Between 3 February and 13 March 1865, the Parliament of the Province of Canada debated the negotiated confederation of British colonies on the Atlantic seaboard, aimed at creating a union from Newfoundland to Lake Superior. As a public information exercise, legislators decided to produce a near-v...

The gaelic vision in scottish culture

Unforced flourishing

An introduction to Estonia's internationally best-known writer and intellectual.

L.m. montgomery's rainbow valleys

A repositioning of L.M. Montgomery and her work within Ontario, where she spent almost half her life.

Canada’s residential schools: missing children and unmarked burials

Between 1867 and 2000, the Canadian government sent over 150,000 Aboriginal children to residential schools across the country. Government officials and missionaries agreed that in order to “civilize and Christianize” Aboriginal children, it was necessary to separate them from their parents and t...

Inventing secondary education

The received view is that secondary education in Ontario is a result of Egerton Ryerson's Education Act of 1871. But R.D. Gidney and W.P.J. Millar show that Ryerson and the Provincial Education Office responded to rather than directed policy in higher education. In fact, the system in place today...

What's to eat?

What do and did we eat? What do our food stories tell us about who we are or were? What's to Eat? serves up twelve preliminary answers to initiate and nourish the discussion of food in Canada.

To preserve & defend

A collection of essays on Kingston during the nineteenth century, following the end of the War of 1812.

The protestant crusade in ireland, 1800-70

William r. mcintyre

William R. McIntyre is the first biography of a justice of the Supreme Court of Canada to appear since the entrenchment of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982. McIntyre played a key role at a critical time in Canadian constitutional history, as the Bench sought to give the new Cha...

Devouring time

Exploring the way filmmakers who adapt Shakespeare’s plays are fuelled by nostalgia.

On their own

Cutting edge research on the contradictions of race, class, and gender in post-apartheid urban South Africa.

Don't tell, second edition

Nearly one male in six has been the victim of sexual abuse during childhood or adolescence, yet this abuse remains a taboo subject, even among victims. In Don't Tell, Michel Dorais gives the victims a voice, providing a sensitive analysis of their traumas and self-questioning, and offering strate...

Irish nationalism and the british state

Drawing on an immense body of literature and research, Brian Jenkins analyses the forces that shaped mid-nineteenth century Irish nationalism in Ireland and North America as well as the role of the Roman Catholic Church. He outlines the relationship between newly arrived Irish Catholic immigrants...

The farmers in politics

First published in 1920, this book endures as a lucid statement of a class and ideological approach to Canadian politics, which with wit and passion seeks to demolish the great Canadian myths of classlessness and pragmatism.

The letters of brendan behan

Brendan Behan -- a Dublin playwright, fiction writer, and poet -- made a deep impression on British theatre during the 1950s. As a young man he made a similar impression on Irish prisons, spending a number of years in them for the cause of Irish republicanism. Throughout his life he continued to ...

Making public pasts

Between 1891 and 1930 Montreal was a bilingual and increasingly multicultural city. Its "two majorities" struggled to negotiate and commemorate their respective memories in the public spaces of the city, using historic monuments to stake a claim to specific places, streets, and neighbourhoods. In...

Minor ethics

Minor Ethics takes up a range of canonical ethical questions and thinks through concrete ethical problems relating to drug addiction, environmental responsibility, xenophobia, trauma, refugees, political parties, and cultural difference. The responses to these concerns demonstrate the minoritaria...

The doukhobors

Not talking union

Why the majority of Mennonites rejected labour unions in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

The canadian economy and disarmament

Canadian population trends and public policy through the 1980s

Translating montreal

The divided Montreal of the 1960s is very different from today's cosmopolitan, hybrid city. Taking the perspective of a walker moving through a fluid landscape of neighbourhoods and eras, Sherry Simon experiences Montreal as a voyage across languages. Sketching out literary passages from the then...

In the interval of the wave

Capturing the hidden histories of Prince Edward Island women in their handwritten pages.

Canada’s residential schools: the legacy

Between 1867 and 2000, the Canadian government sent over 150,000 Aboriginal children to residential schools across the country. Government officials and missionaries agreed that in order to “civilize and Christianize” Aboriginal children, it was necessary to separate them from their parents and t...

Unfulfilled union, fifth edition

A comprehensive examination of Canadian federalism and its evolution from 1867 to the present.

A world mission

Between the two world wars, leaders of the mainline Protestant denominations in Canada -- Anglican, Methodist, Presbyterian, United, and Baptist -- were engaged in a sustained effort to formulate and apply a form of Christian internationalism that would b

The distemper of our times

It is impossible to appreciate Canada in the mid- and late-1960s without reading The Distemper of Our Times. Newman's skilful selection of evidence, his grasp of personality and the flair and pace of his writing style bring the disparate events of that turbulent era into a cogent narrative that w...